Personal Empires: Mapping, Local Networks, and the Control of Land in the Lower Mississippi Valley

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. e021
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Franco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spatial Representations ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley

The Louisiana and Florida territories sat at the intersection of empires in the late eighteenth century. Between 1750 and 1820 the area was controlled by the French and Spanish empires, the emerging United States of America, as well as the Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole nations. While political surveys produced images of the moving borders between sovereign powers, cadastral surveys show the constancy of local landowners. Landowners superseded national distinction and were a constant in an area in the midst of great change. As control of the region shifted, landowning families continued their way of life. The continued circulation of Spanish cadastral surveys after the transfer of the region to the United States of America shows how Spanish spatial representations of property ownership shaped the image of the Lower Mississippi Valley.

scholarly journals The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Singerton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
The Impact

Jonathan Singerton’s is the first work to analyze the impact of the American Revolution in the Habsburg lands in full. He narrates how the Habsburg dynasty first received struggled with the news of the American Revolution and then how they sought to utilize their connections with a sovereign United States of America. Overall, Singerton recasts scholarly conceptions of the Atlantic World and also presents a more globalized view of the eighteenth-century Habsburg world, highlighting how the American call to liberty was answered in the remotest parts of central and eastern Europe but also showing how the United States failed to sway one of the largest, most powerful states in Europe onto its side in the War for American Independence.

2 The Development of Archaeological Knowledge in the Lower Mississippi Valley

1964 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Greengo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
Archaeological Knowledge ◽  
Plausible Argument

Observations having some bearing on the archaeology of the Lower Mississippi Valley are to be found in the writings of the early travelers. As the country became settled, accounts of local and regional historical interest often included remarks or occasional papers devoted to the local antiquities. My purpose here is to sketch the conceptualization of prehistory as it was developed through the most significant writings.A plausible argument may be submitted in support of the contention that Thomas Jefferson was the first scientific archaeologist in the United States. Curiously enough, his archaeological influence extended to the Lower Mississippi Valley. This was through H. M. Brackenridge, who went into the Louisiana Territory soon after it was purchased and wrote a number of descriptive accounts of the country.

Astronomy and U.S. Expansion in the Lower Mississippi Valley

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-161
Author(s):  
Cameron B. Strang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
William Dunbar

U.S. expansion into the lower Mississippi Valley from 1795 to 1810 evinced and inspired many of the ways that officials and experts in the early United States used astronomy to promote territorial growth. Yet Anglo-Americans did not simply export scientific practices to the United States’ new territories. Peaceful and violent encounters among Spaniards and Anglos, masters and slaves, inhabitants and administrators, and whites and Indians all shaped the practice of astronomy in the Gulf South and, moreover, influenced how astronomy and imperialism overlapped in the United States on the whole. Geopolitical competition motivated the work of the Spanish and U.S. commissions of the Florida boundary survey (1798–1800), violence against slaves enabled astronomers like William Dunbar to perform disciplined observations, and interimperial exchanges of data made José Joaquín de Ferrer y Cafranga a prominent figure in the United States’ scientific community.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION

1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. v-ix
Author(s):  
Sayyid M. Syeed
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
To Come

The arrival of Islam in the United States of America has been datedback to the coming of slaves from Africa. During this unfortunate tradein human cargo from the African mainland many Muslim men andwomen came to these shores. Some of these men and women were morevisible than others; some were more literate in Arabic than the others:and some were better remembered by their generations than the others.Despite these multiple differences between the Muslim slaves andtheir brethren from various parts of the African continent, the fact stillremains that their Islam and their self-confidence did not save them fromthe oppressive chains of slave masters. The religion of Islam survivedonly during the lifetime of individual believers who tried desperately tomaintain their Islamic way of life. Among the Muslims who came in antebellum times in America one can include Yorro Mahmud (erroneouslyanglicised as Yarrow Mamout), Ayub Ibn Sulayman Diallo (known toAnglo-Saxons as Job ben Solomon), Abdul Rahman (known as AbdulRahahman in the Western sources) and countless others whose Islamicritual practices were prevented from surfacing in public.Besides these Muslim slaves of the ante bellum America, there wereothers who came to these shores without the handicap of slavery. Theycame from Southern Europe, the Middle East and the IndianSubcontinent. These Muslims were immigrants to America at the end ofthe Nineteenth Century and the beginning of the Twentieth Century.Motivated by the desire to come to a land of opportunity and strike it rich,many of these men and women later found out that the United States ofAmerica was destined to be their permanent homeland. In the search foridentity and cultural security in their new environment, these Muslimimmigrants began to consolidate their cultural resources by, buildingmosques and organising national and local groups for the purpose ofsocial welfare and solidarity. These developments among the Muslimscontributed to the emergence of various cultural and religious bodiesamong the American Muslims. In the drive for self-preservation and ...

Allegiance, Identities, and National Scientific Communities

2018 ◽  
pp. 162-207
Author(s):  
Cameron B. Strang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
William Dunbar

This chapter studies how individuals in the lower Mississippi Valley fashioned identities as men of science. It focuses on the 1790s to the 1810s, an era when several empires and other groups competed for power in the region. Local experts tried to benefit from circulating information among a variety of actual and potential patrons, and, in the process, they manipulated and blurred the boundaries between the United States’ scientific community and those of other polities competing for the borderlands. The chapter includes case studies of the Spanish naturalist and spy Thomas Power, the Scottish planter and astronomer William Dunbar, and the French engineer and slave trader Barthélémy Lafon. Their stories reveal how territorial expansion both added to, and exacerbated deep tensions within, the United States’ scientific community.

scholarly journals Tomás Navarro Tomás, entre dos continentes

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 85-112
Author(s):  
Emilia Cortés Ibáñez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Epistolary Writing ◽  
Before And After ◽  
University Professor ◽  
New Situation

The Spanish Civil War led a lot of people into exile and marked a before and after in their lives, many of whom had to a great extent reinvent themselves and as is the case of those mentioned here never returned to Spain. The United States of America and Mexico were two of the countries that received many of the Spanish intellectuals as was the case of Navarro Tomás and Giménez Siles, respectively. United through blood ties, both of them resolved to carry on their lives pursuing their careers as a university professor and researcher, and a bookseller and publisher; some of their friends, like Federico de Onís and Juan Ramón Jiménez, whom they were reunited with in exile, found a similar solution. All of them left Spain with their families and had to adjust to a new situation, to a new way of life and their grief for Spain. Epistolary writing, so frequent and common during XX Century, is an endless source of life stories, expressions of feelings, attitudes towards life in all its various facets of information.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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